Andy Beahrs
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Usually confused, writing helps
My cousin is the harbormaster
My cousin is the harbormaster
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“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
A few thoughts on writing.
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Writing is an Estuary
It needs churn, and time, and rot.
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December 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
A few thoughts on writing.
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
People have been giving thanks for harvests and hunts in what is now the United States for thousands of years; today's piece is about the Aquinnah Wampanoag's wonderful Cranberry Day celebrations.
Cranberry Day at Aquinnah
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Cranberry Day at Aquinnah
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Cranberry Day at Aquinnah
Thanksgiving long predates European colonists
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November 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
People have been giving thanks for harvests and hunts in what is now the United States for thousands of years; today's piece is about the Aquinnah Wampanoag's wonderful Cranberry Day celebrations.
Cranberry Day at Aquinnah
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Cranberry Day at Aquinnah
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AR-PHARAZÔN THE GOLDEN: What you have to remember also is he appeared in fair form.
CHOTINER: The next time the invasion of Valinor and the destruction of Númenor come up, I'll keep in mind that Sauron was handsome when it happened.
AR-PHARAZÔN: He was. Not that that excuses it.
CHOTINER: Right.
CHOTINER: The next time the invasion of Valinor and the destruction of Númenor come up, I'll keep in mind that Sauron was handsome when it happened.
AR-PHARAZÔN: He was. Not that that excuses it.
CHOTINER: Right.
October 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
AR-PHARAZÔN THE GOLDEN: What you have to remember also is he appeared in fair form.
CHOTINER: The next time the invasion of Valinor and the destruction of Númenor come up, I'll keep in mind that Sauron was handsome when it happened.
AR-PHARAZÔN: He was. Not that that excuses it.
CHOTINER: Right.
CHOTINER: The next time the invasion of Valinor and the destruction of Númenor come up, I'll keep in mind that Sauron was handsome when it happened.
AR-PHARAZÔN: He was. Not that that excuses it.
CHOTINER: Right.
Mark Twain's Thanksgiving
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Twain's Feast
Holidays at Nook Farm were a time to remember
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November 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Mark Twain's Thanksgiving
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Perfectly put.
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Perfectly put.
"This insight" kills me. That's not insightful, you narcissist fuck, that's "being a whiny tool."
Why hello there former US Treasury Secretary, president of Harvard, and director of the National Economic Council Larry Summers.
Sharing with alt so we can all bask in his hidden insights that we are NOT allowed to share.
And here's the source link:
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Sharing with alt so we can all bask in his hidden insights that we are NOT allowed to share.
And here's the source link:
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November 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"This insight" kills me. That's not insightful, you narcissist fuck, that's "being a whiny tool."
The Balladeer's Kiss
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The Balladeer's Kiss
America need gigantic, generous, humanist minds.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The Balladeer's Kiss
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If You’re Stuck At An Airport Right Now, It’s Because Trump Fucked You - defector.com/if-youre-stu...
If You’re Stuck At An Airport Right Now, It’s Because Trump Fucked You | Defector
You picked a bad weekend to fly. Over 1,500 flights in the US were cancelled yesterday, and over 1,200 over them have already been cancelled this morning. One of those may have been yours. You’re stuc...
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November 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
If You’re Stuck At An Airport Right Now, It’s Because Trump Fucked You - defector.com/if-youre-stu...
Take the Trump poop plane video seriously. (GOD I hate typing that).
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Crapping on America
MAGA, purity, pollution, and Alan Dundes's Life is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder
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November 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Take the Trump poop plane video seriously. (GOD I hate typing that).
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Every time I see a story premised on the presumably surprising idea of rotund, happy-looking whales holding their own against mean, scary-looking sharks, I feel compelled to remind people that orcas WEAR A DISGUISE. The orca is the ONE WHO KNOCKS.
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Every time I see a story premised on the presumably surprising idea of rotund, happy-looking whales holding their own against mean, scary-looking sharks, I feel compelled to remind people that orcas WEAR A DISGUISE. The orca is the ONE WHO KNOCKS.
If tariffs go down I really feel like the floodgates might open. Combination of election results and SCOTUS placing actual limits could make the orange fuck a lame duck by yesterday.
Roberts now going at the solicitor general like a cat with a wounded mouse. Keeps telling him that tariffs are taxes on the American people. "Who pays the tariffs??" Says Trump's argument would neutralize separation of powers between the legislative and executive branches. Incredible stuff.
November 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
If tariffs go down I really feel like the floodgates might open. Combination of election results and SCOTUS placing actual limits could make the orange fuck a lame duck by yesterday.
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Anytime Trump says some bullshit I see a fair amount of despondent comments like "And like a third of the country will believe him" which is true but I think you just have to get past that. Like a third of the country believes in ghosts too, we don't need total consensus to win
April 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Anytime Trump says some bullshit I see a fair amount of despondent comments like "And like a third of the country will believe him" which is true but I think you just have to get past that. Like a third of the country believes in ghosts too, we don't need total consensus to win
The California Egg War
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The California Egg War
In early San Francisco, eggs were worth fighting--and killing--for.
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October 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The California Egg War
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When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
June 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
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I want to challenge all of you to donate what you can to a food bank this week.
October 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I want to challenge all of you to donate what you can to a food bank this week.
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Instead of seeing the Trump dropping poop AI video by old standards—"how dare he, if any Dem..."—see it in fight-against-authoritarianism terms:
They want everyone non-MAGA too scared to object, they fantasize about shooting protestors, and all they've got is a juvenile AI video to fake the feeling.
They want everyone non-MAGA too scared to object, they fantasize about shooting protestors, and all they've got is a juvenile AI video to fake the feeling.
October 19, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Instead of seeing the Trump dropping poop AI video by old standards—"how dare he, if any Dem..."—see it in fight-against-authoritarianism terms:
They want everyone non-MAGA too scared to object, they fantasize about shooting protestors, and all they've got is a juvenile AI video to fake the feeling.
They want everyone non-MAGA too scared to object, they fantasize about shooting protestors, and all they've got is a juvenile AI video to fake the feeling.
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almost every single one of the gov accounts that got created today have kicked off with some message blaming dems for shutdown, they’re trying to turn back the tide of public opinion blaming them, just block them
looks like it is, block them anyway, depriving them of oxygen is an extremely effective strategy
it’s not impossible that this is legit, but it’s unlikely, they’re not using the domain verification, block them either way
October 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
almost every single one of the gov accounts that got created today have kicked off with some message blaming dems for shutdown, they’re trying to turn back the tide of public opinion blaming them, just block them
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I once again urge those arguing that there's been no change in Republicans, that they've always been exactly like this, to realize that to everyone else it sounds like you're saying "calm down, 2026 and 2028 will be perfectly normal, you don't need to do anything that you weren't doing years ago."
October 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I once again urge those arguing that there's been no change in Republicans, that they've always been exactly like this, to realize that to everyone else it sounds like you're saying "calm down, 2026 and 2028 will be perfectly normal, you don't need to do anything that you weren't doing years ago."
Countless hours staring at this at the Museum of Natural History with the blue whale overhead. They finally got it!
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Sperm whale eating giant squid
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September 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Countless hours staring at this at the Museum of Natural History with the blue whale overhead. They finally got it!
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The Kimmel thing is big because it's visible and easy to understand: the regime got him canned for speech, then danced on his professional grave, then fucking lost due to popular pushback.
Every night he's on the air will be a reminder of their core pettiness and weakness.
Every night he's on the air will be a reminder of their core pettiness and weakness.
September 23, 2025 at 12:18 AM
The Kimmel thing is big because it's visible and easy to understand: the regime got him canned for speech, then danced on his professional grave, then fucking lost due to popular pushback.
Every night he's on the air will be a reminder of their core pettiness and weakness.
Every night he's on the air will be a reminder of their core pettiness and weakness.